Power generator



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in View as will appear as the description pro ceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing: 7 Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus embodying the features of my invention, Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof, Figure 3 is a sectional view through the rockable actuator,

Figure 4: is a detail view of the endless belt with buckets thereon and the power take off, and

Figure 5 is a fragmentary View of the endless chain with the tiltable bucket thereon.

Referring to the drawing in detailjitwill be seen that the frame comprises longitudinal horizontal bars 5 having ends secured to lower portions of uprights .6 and other end-s secured to lower portions of uprights 7.

Upright frames 8 are mounted on the intermediate portions of the bars 5.. The stand 9 on the upright frame 8 supports a receptacle 10. A shaft 11 is mounted across the upper end of the. upright frame 8 while a shaft 12 is mountedacross the lower ends of these frames 8. Chain and sprocket mechanisms 14 are associated with the shaftv and across the chains thereof are tiltable buckets '15 hingedly mounted as'at 16 and having bottom flanges 17 for engaging a flange 18 on the receptacle so as to be tilted by the engage mentof the flanges 17 with the flange 18 as the buckets pass upwardly by the receptacle adjacent each endof the shaft.

10 for the purpose of pouring the water-contained in the bucketinto the receptacle. f

Weights 19 on arms 20 project from the "bucket so as to hold them against the chains in upright position as they are moving up- Wardly and to hold them in inverted positions as they are moving downwardly.

Arcuate rails 22 are mounted in the lower portions of the frames 8 for engaging the arms 20 attheir bights. so as to cause the buckets to move throughthe water as is indicated to advantage 111 Figure l causing them to pick up water and start upwardly in upright position. 1 i

A bell crank leverj 23 is rockable on the shaft ,11 and on oneend is provided with an adjustable weight 24; while a cable 2 5 is attached to the other end thereof.

7 There are two of these levers and cablesone Ratchet Wheels 26 are fixed on the'shaft and are adapted to be engaged with pawls 27 on the levers 23. Spring pressed pawls 28 mounted in sprocket mechanismsinone direction but ohviously allow them to be rotated in the other direction as the levers 23 are oscillated by the cables 25.

The cables are trained over pulleys 30 on a shaft 31 in the upperend of the upright 6. A rockable actuator comprises a substantially U-shaped frame 32 rockably mounted asat 33 and having the cables 25 engaged with thecross members thereof While a hol low curvedbuoyant member or float 35 is mounted between the ends thereof.

This buoyant. member 35 is raised up and down with the rise and fall of the wavesso as to oscillate the actuatorthereby causing the oscillation of the levers 23. Shafts '36 and 37 are mounted between the uprigbts7 and have drums 38 mounted thereon with belt 39 trained thereover and on this belt there are mountedbuckets 40 adapted to be fed with water from a spout 41 at one end of the brackets 29 prevent rotation of the ratchetwheels and theshaft 16 and the chain and receptacle 10 so that these buckets will be 1 l filled and then gravitate downwardly. coming up inverted on the other side and empty.

15 mounted. between the upper ends of the uprights 7 and has a belt and pulley operative connection 44 with the shaft 36 so that the shaft 43 may be used as a power take off shaft in any suitable manner.

It is thought that the construction, operation, utility and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed description thereof.

The present embodiment of the invention has been described in considerable detail merely for the purposes of exemplification since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

In a power generator of the class described, a frame, a rockable actuator mounted in the frame to ride on the waves so that the actuator will be rocked as the waves rise and fall, an endless bucket conveyor structure, means for operating the structure from the actuator, and a receptacle adapted to be filled with water from the endless bucket structure, said endless bucket structure comprising a pair of chain and sprocket mechanisms, buckets hingedly mounted across the chains, arms projecting from the buckets and terminating in weights for holding the buckets in upright positions as they move upwardly and in inverted position as they move downwardly, and guides associated with said arms to cause the buckets to move from inverted positionsthrough the water to upright positions.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ROSARIO SOTO. 

